Best of 2009 – Article

Another stumper, since I’m predisposed to think that an article is in a newspaper or magazine and not online… and I don’t read the newspaper or magazines. Yes I know that’s not accurate, it’s just what my antiquated mind thinks.

And so, though this doesn’t mean that I didn’t read anything at all that could be considered an article this year, I will say that the one that I did read that was actually printed on paper was not written this year.

I was rummaging through my junk – there was so much of it – before moving to Colorado, and found an old article from my HIV prevention days. No, it wasn’t about me. It was about Megan. I don’t know where the heck it is now, or I’d scan it here.

She and Ray, a young man who worked for me at the time, were interviewed in the Providence Journal for a somewhat revolutionary backpack needle exchange program that we were piloting – we were one of maybe a handful of cities that were trying this new angle on harm reduction. This was 2005 or 2006, before she was a twinkle in my mind as the woman I’d marry, and she was one of the staff of 20 or so that I had deployed to the streets slinging safer-sex kits, toiletries, and at the time – clean needles.

The photo with the article made me smile, Megan looks tiny next to her much larger teammate Ray. And they both look so serious. Perhaps a bit of foreshadowing to this?